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Introduction

0:00

Change blindness

3:26

Control hallucination

5:50

Consciousness

6:16

Real Problem of Consciousness

11:23

Different Domains of Consciousness

14:41

Conscious Level

15:47

Conscious Content

23:03

Lilac Chaser Illusion

23:22

Bayesian Inference

26:04

Predictive Processing

27:27

Perception

28:53

Evidence

29:40

Computational Neurophenomenology

31:09

Hallucinations

33:26

Uncontrolled Perception

35:15

The Self

36:34

Different Types of Self

38:51

The Body

41:21

Rubber Hand Illusion

43:47

Being a Beast Machine

45:59

Interreceptive Predictions

48:17

Free Energy Principle

51:58

Summary

53:30

Why is it happening

54:32

Descartes

57:19
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Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination? - with Anil Seth
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